Labor Day weekend greetings from the Midwest. Since there was not a particularly attractive opening picture (most this week were of competitor’s sloppy hole digging), we are including a wonderful shot of a hot air balloon from our Colorado trip in July. Hope your...
Telstra has also deployed the Ericsson Local Packet Gateway in Telstra’s commercial 5G network
Australian telco Telstra and Ericsson have deployed an automated standards-based network slicing service orchestration capability in Telstra’s commercial network using Ericsson Orchestration and Ericsson Inventory solutions.
In a release, the Swedish vendor...
If the courts side with Arm, Qualcomm could be forced to destroy any designs it has produced with the licenses in question
Arm is suing Qualcomm and Nuvia, the startup that Qualcomm acquired in 2021, claiming that the companies violated the licenses they have to...
With Nokia also exiting Russia, Huawei remains the only major international telecom equipment provider in the country
Ericsson has announced its official exit from Russia due to the country’s invasion of Ukraine. The vendor suspended its business in Russia indefinitely in April of this year,...
Cox customers in Hampton Roads, Virginia, Omaha, Nebraska and Las Vegas now have access to Cox Mobile
Cox Communications is now piloting its new mobile phone service Cox Mobile in Hampton Roads, Virginia, Omaha, Nebraska and Las Vegas. The announcement comes more than a decade...
The vendor's founder Ren Zhengfei said that Huawei would shut down marginal business units
Chinese vendor Huawei needs to adopt "survival mode" for at least the next three years chiefly due to the global recession perspectives, Chinese site Yicai Global reported, citing an article published...
Greetings from the Midwest and Southeast (at left, toting the week’s produce from Kansas City’s open-air City Market). The freshly-picked watermelon we purchased there was far sweeter than the Chiefs performance in their first preseason game (and narrowly beating the Commanders did not assuage...
Cisco CEO said company is benefitting from long-term technology shifts towards hybrid cloud, 5G and WiFi 6
Cisco has reported $13.1 billion in revenue for its fiscal fourth quarter and a net income on a generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) basis of $2.8 billion, topping...
Along the way to becoming one of the world’s largest 5G providers, India’s Jio also has shown telecom companies around the globe how to build a thriving, customer-focused 4G business in record time.
This summer, Jio noted that its all-IP 4G LTE network has grown...
With this transaction, Roger and Shaw believe that the merger of their operations should be approved by the Canadian government
Canadian operators Rogers Communications, Shaw Communications and Quebecor have entered into a definitive agreement for the sale of Freedom Mobile to Videotron, a subsidiary of...
Combo of 600 MHz 5G Standalone and 2.5 GHz gives T-Mobile US a “differentiated” value proposition
On the heels of agreeing to spend $3.5 billion to acquire formerly-leased 600 MHz spectrum in 17 partial economic areas, T-Mobile US CFO Peter Osvaldik joined the virtual Oppenheimer...
Wireless transport company Ceragon continues to attempt to avoid the acquisition attentions of competitor Aviat Networks, saying that Aviat's offers don't properly value Ceragon.
Aviat has increased its offer consisting of $2.80 in cash and $0.28 in equity consideration, from an earlier offer of $2.80 per share (the company...
Verizon looks to “make the market” in combining 5G and mobile edge computing
Sowmyanarayan Sampath, the new head of Verizon Business, this week discussed what he sees as three technology trends that, when coupled with the operator’s 5G network, can grow total addressable market by...
Softbank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son invested $20 million in Alibaba in 2000
After posting a $23 billion quarterly net loss on Monday, SoftBank announced plans to reduce its stake in Alibaba to 14.6% from 23.7% for more than 4.6 trillion Japanese yen ($34.1 billion).
In the filing,...
Greetings from rural Midwest. Pictured is the American Broadband fiber inventory for a new market we are in the process of launching. More details on that launch in a few weeks as we bring fiber goodness to unserved and underserved homes and businesses.
This has...
For one of the projects, IMDA partnered with Keppel Offshore & Marine, M1, Hiverlab and Suga to develop and commercialize 5G-enabled solutions for the maritime sector
Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) said it is currently working with industry to expand the country’s 5G ecosystem...
Todd Nightingale leaving Cisco to take on CEO role at Fastly
Todd Nightingale, long-time executive vice president and general manager of the Cisco Enterprise Cloud and Networking Group, will become CEO of edge cloud platform provider Fastly on Sept. 1. Cisco, according to an emailed...
A new report by Darkhorse Global, a geo-economic and national security consultancy, makes some good points about the convergence of national security and industrial policy frameworks for telecommunications infrastructure. It outlines three “wicked problems” confronting today’s global ICT ecosystem.
First, vulnerabilities exist in all networks, hardware and software. Second,...
Cable MSOs Charter Communications and Comcast both saw strong growth in their mobile businesses during the second quarter, with each cable company reporting net mobile customer additions greater than 300,000 and outperforming host network Verizon, which added 12,000 postpaid phone lines during the second...
Hans Vestberg touts Verizon success with FBI, Virginia International Terminals
While it's weathering a rough second quarter, Verizon still sees material revenue opportunities from delivering private 5G networks, mobile edge computing and other services into the enterprise and government sectors. Speaking on an earnings call...
Qualcomm and Samsung extend patent licensing agreement through 2030
Qualcomm revenues are up across the company’s handset, RF front-end, IoT and automotive businesses based on Q3 earnings released this week as the firm executives on its strategy expand total addressable market to $700 billion in...
Communications infrastructure provider BAI Communications will acquire ZenFi Networks, a digital infrastructure solutions provider based on the North American east coast. Financial terms were not disclosed. Once the deal is approved by regulators, the ZenFi Networks team will join BAI’s Transit Wireless and Mobilitie...
Orange said that the transaction is based on an enterprise value of 18.6 billion euros
Spanish mobile operators Orange and Masmovil have signed a binding agreement to combine their operations in Spain.
The telcos had started negotiations in early March of this year. The transaction is...
In November 2021, Ericsson announced the acquisition Vonage in a $6.2 billion deal
Ericsson said it has completed its acquisition of Vonage Holdings, which will enable the vendor to offer a full suite of communications solutions including, Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS), unified communications-as-a-service...
